KiwiRho

Fantastic weathering! That is one beautiful model. The wiring and cabling must have been the biggest challenge but you have completed something quite special. Many thanks for sharing.

Amazing! You certainly like 'em B-I-G!!! Great stuff and what an awesome finish of the venerable Vulcan kit.

Love those comparison with the historical. Awesome looking model. Well done and very much appreciated you sharing.

Excellent work, Alex. Well done indeed! The 'extra work' you did is seamless and when pointed out by you in your comment above shows how well you have applied it. I am greatly impressed.

That is just one fantastic finish. I do miss PanAm. A lot of white paint got used there, I bet. I like the mounting as well (I admit though at first I thought it didn't work, but realised it really adds something to it). Great job.

Absolutely stunning subject matter finished in grand style. Great job indeed.

Great subject matter finished beautifully (and one of my own projects 'underway' at present). The aircraft that brought me to NZ (SIN-AKL) in April 1978. Well done indeed.

OMG - that weathering work is simply amazing! Very, very cool. Great work.

Beautiful. Congrats on the work it obviously took to get it to this grand finish. Stunning! I remember seeing these deltas in the flesh regularly visiting RNZAF Ohakea in the early 1980's and also later in a solo display during the Australian Bicentennial Airshow in 1988 at RAAF Richmond.

Love it! Good work and impressive. Simply a great looking model - and inspiring too. Well done.

Fantastic. Wow! It looks beautiful as a longtime Air NZ fan and passenger. Flown on many of their 76's over the years. The engine type issue is a point for the fastidious but your able work is good enough for that not to bother me. In fact, I just recently flew on one of these 76 winglet types to and from Hawaii from Auckland. I had heard some reports beforehand the interiors were looking very tired - but i can honestly state, I was impressed - it could be a lot worse. It's a long-ish flight (9 hours 30 mins) and I enjoyed it despite the naysayers. What a great job - you should be proud of that collection too - I'm envious but working on it - and it's good to hear Mr Mossong is still going strong on the model front after all these years (ask him to tell you about about the legendary "Mossong Fling" - I still remember that from 20-plus years ago! ;-P).

All are stunning, Mike. Geez, you impress! Just reinforces that I've gotta get a move on with my own projects.... I love the Olympic B720. Just beautiful - btw; the one big trip undertaken with my parents as a kid years before coming to NZ - traveling to Greece for my one of father's sabbaticals for a year (1973-1974). There was a coup whilst we were there (the very nasty Colonels were kicked out by the Generals). Anyway, I recall the old man taking us for entertainment to watch the air movements at Athens airport and we watched quite a few of these sleek birds coming and going. It's the only aircraft I remembered on that trip - and it was very cool that Air Rhodesia were flying their similar sanctions-busting 720's by the time we got home. Two questions - (1) are those the kit engines or the Welsh Models JT3D versions, and (2) are the coroguard wing decals are those from the F-Decal 707 / 720 Detail Set?

Nice job. 1971, huh! You certainly know what level you're starting from with that age - that's when my old man was into his modelling. Well finished.

Wow! What a great finish. Well done indeed. I really like your paint work. Man, there's some panel detail on that kit. How much of that did you have to do / re do yourself, I wonder. Time for a new phone, though... haha!

Awesome looking finish there, Speedbird! I really like. Very accurate and subtle weathering. Awesome job and great choice of decals (sourced from MAV in PE - will have to check them out?). Coincidentally, that nicely moulded kit is one of about 12 partially built on my work-bench at the moment - to be the one and only Ansett NZ BAe 146-200 "QC" ZK-NZC ...when it's done!

Nice reworking job! Thanks also for putting up your story too - will be onto one of these Minicraft DC-8s myself shortly, so any hints and tips I can glean from others are both helpful and appreciated. A great looking zebra / DC-8!

Another top build, Mike. Well done and thanks for sharing again. Watch out for those water police. I heard you guys in Cali have been advised to kill off lawn grass as well. True?

Beautiful finish. You certainly know your weathering - that is just great work all around. Well done! I love the Harrier.

Awesome Phantom. A great finish. Well done on this one, sir! For some reason the UK Phantoms seem to appeal more to me personally (maybe it's that flat-top tail... ).

Cool little silver bird, isn't it. Love that "v" tail. Great finished kit. Well done indeed.

That is a great little story - thanks for the link. I happily stand corrected on the "sticker" - it was actually paint... and the "one flight" - it was actually sixteen. See what happens when you believe stories manipulated and embellished by others over time (he sighs... ). Haha! Would still be a complimentary version of the above beauty though, wouldn't it?

That's either a really big can of Humbrol or that is one tiny helo in 1/72 scale Great finish and I compliment you on your ambitious goal in getting something so small looking so good. If only my eyes could take such punishment - hahaha! Seriously, well done and I think you came up trumps with your modellers group challenge. I like the dio base as well!

Great old bird. Love those puggish-looking engine nacelles. This model has a seriously refined look to it and you should be really proud of this finish. Interesting to read you had issues with the plastic itself. Was a bad batch do you think - or just an early manufacturers plastic recipe perhaps?

Beautiful work. How straight is that cheat line!!! Well done, Sir! Love the long 8's, but want to start on an Air New Zealand series -52 myself. Minicraft chop surgery coming up soon.

Awesome job there. Well done! Did I read it right "Turbofan" indicating he was to produce an Air New Zealand example? If so, I cannot wait.